HAPPY SUPERBOWL SUNDAY FOOTBALL FANS!!!!!!

HAPPY SUPERBOWL SUNDAY FOOTBALL FANS!!!!!!
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Who am I kidding? I don’t give a crap about the Superbowl. That probably makes me a bad American (sorry Drewsch). I don’t even know who’s playing today. I only know these things about the Suberbowl:
1. The Green Bay Packers won Superbowl I (WIFTW)
2. Nobody watched Superbowl I
3. Janet Jackson’s boob ruined (made) the halftime show that one year
4. The commercials are pretty good usually (but sometimes they’re not - http://www.sportspickle.com/article:616/10-worst-super-bowl-commercials-of-all-time)
5. Spoiler alert: the Saints won this year

With that said, I encourage some other BK4 resident who is not filled to the brim with apathy to write a blog post about the Superbowl today or sometime this week.

I was going to write this post about the commercials, but then I got a quarter and a half in, got bored, and went back to making hundreds of testicles out of m&m’s. I’ll just let the internet decide which commercials were best/worst for me. I’ll just throw out a kudos to the company that used dramatic chipmunk. That was cool. And Doritos. Good job Doritos.

Anyway, here’s another thing I was going to talk about:

Training the next generation of BK4.

A ton of us have signed up to be hosts for the explore program. This is excellent. Pretty soon (as early as Feb 22), BK4 members will be hosting high school seniors that have been invited to interview for presidential and trustee scholarships. Those kids have no idea how lucky they are. They are getting a one night preview of the best floor on campus so it’s pretty much guaranteed that if they get the scholarship, they’ll come here, haha. Look at the benefits: nice spacious triples and bunked rooms, a chance to meet a few celebrities (JJ!), and we even have Viv, who is basically a high school senior herself and can relate to them.

Another important note: Will has recently approached me about making BK4 a more formal organization (with meetings and officers) and asked me to talk to everyone about it. Since everyone reads the blog (obviously), this will do. Benefits of this government: coordination of events, a google calendar with floormate events (anthony’s recital, Sonal’s dance rehearsal, fraternity/sorority events that are open to others GDI’s… etc.) and MORE! So look forward to more on that in the next week (wait for steve to make the calendar…)

And now onto my real blog post (enjoy, fellow nerds):

Maybe it’s that I’ve been watching too much Lost (which I undeniably have), but all that thought about what the hell is going on on that weird island has brought me back to something that bothered me quite a bit at the end of the 3rd matrix (other than the fact that it was such a terrible third entry I almost cried). I know people like to debate about whether or not Neo is dead in real life, the matrix, or both. I think he’s dead in the real world but not in the matrix (the oracle died at least twice… what’s to say Neo couldn’t live on within the matrix as a program?) Anyway, the thing that bothers me is that I don’t think the human’s really accomplished anything at the end. I think that the matrix was really a matrix within a matrix (at least).

Here’s why:

In the third movie, Neo is able to use his matrix powers (stopping bullets, etc.) OUTSIDE of the matrix, without being jacked in to anything at all. Not even a wireless router or something. This alone makes it pretty obvious that Zion is simply another layer of matrix to keep the human race under control. Neo’s powers are simply based on the manipulation of the Matrix’s code, so he shouldn’t be able to do anything in “The desert of the real” if it’s not code based.

In the second movie, agent smith is able to stick his hand in people and hijack them. Turning them into clones of himself (that he is still in control of). He does this to a crewmember of a Zion ship, and is then transported to the real world through this person and causes a whole mess of problems. The thing is, though, that unless the man’s brain was code-based in the real world (which is obviously wouldn’t be), then Smith shouldn’t just be able to reprogram his entire brain (it would require physical changes in his brain, which the matrix couldn’t really do).

Finally, once Neo destroyed smith for the machines, there is absolutely no reason they should follow through with their truce. They need the humans to power themselves, and the humans were obviously super outnumbered, especially now that they’ve lost their best weapon of all (Neo). The machines are purely logic based entities, so why not just move in, finish off Zion, and be done with it? Simple. No more problems. Unless it’s just a tactic to make the Zion humans more complacent and not discover the actual secret that they’re in a matrix themselves.

I don’t know if there are other humans that are actually outside the matrix, or how many layers of matrix there are, but that could be a very interesting way to continue the series.

Now another nerdy rant:

The Terminator series’ epic plot-hole: John Connor sent his own father back in time to impregnate his mother (and conceive him). Even by normal time-travel plot holes, that’s a pretty big/obvious/unnecessary one. Here’s the loop:

John’s dad comes back in time, impregnates his mom -> John is born -> John grows up to lead the resistance against the machines -> John sends his dad back in time to make him -> John’s dad comes back in time… and so on x infinity.

Who sent Connor’s dad back in time the FIRST time? Come argue with me in person. I’m too tired to write out my argument right now, but seriously wtf. It’s totally meaningless that John sends his own father back anyway. It makes no sense. Sarah could have easily gotten preggers some other way.

Now it’s time to do chemistry. Fml.

Defender of the floorby